Microservices
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microservices skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microservices over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 49 40 29
Rank change year-on-year -9 -11 -2
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,890 8,212 10,660
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.42% 6.55% 8.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.76% 6.84% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1,972 5,021 6,402
10th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £53,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,290 £90,000
90th Percentile £111,746 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 50,205 119,980 123,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.73% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 36,305 73,101 82,277
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microservices.

Salary trend for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 2 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 2 December 2023. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -6 2,419 £75,000 -6.01% 902
Work from Home +4 1,630 £75,000 - 633
UK excluding London +5 1,612 £70,000 +7.69% 529
London -13 1,105 £82,500 -2.94% 463
North of England +10 489 £70,576 +8.58% 140
South East +1 299 £65,000 -7.14% 190
North West -2 270 £70,000 +7.69% 84
South West +43 265 £65,000 - 51
Scotland -6 233 £70,576 +8.58% 32
Yorkshire +44 205 £70,576 +1.62% 46
Midlands +14 191 £67,500 +3.85% 61
East Midlands +1 99 £70,000 - 11
West Midlands +22 92 £60,000 - 50
Northern Ireland +8 58 £81,250 +63.32% 14
East of England -18 50 £82,500 +26.92% 36
Wales -5 46 £58,750 -0.70% 17
North East +15 16 £58,750 -2.08% 15

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 75 (2.60%) Confluence
2 37 (1.28%) Tomcat
3 29 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 28 (0.97%) nginx
5 27 (0.93%) CMS
6 26 (0.90%) Apache
7 24 (0.83%) SharePoint
8 20 (0.69%) Jetty
9 17 (0.59%) OpenStack
10 14 (0.48%) JBoss
11 12 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
11 12 (0.42%) Jupyter
12 11 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
13 10 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 8 (0.28%) Drupal
14 8 (0.28%) Headless CMS
15 7 (0.24%) NServiceBus
16 6 (0.21%) Anypoint
16 6 (0.21%) Apache Solr
17 5 (0.17%) Umbraco
Applications
1 13 (0.45%) MS Visio
2 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (0.14%) Chatbot
4 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.069%) Sketch
5 2 (0.069%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.069%) UXPin
5 2 (0.069%) Zeplin
6 1 (0.035%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.17%) Magento
4 4 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.10%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.10%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.069%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.069%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.069%) Shopify
6 2 (0.069%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.035%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.035%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.035%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.035%) Primavera
7 1 (0.035%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 1,155 (39.97%) AWS
2 1,032 (35.71%) Azure
3 679 (23.49%) Serverless
4 473 (16.37%) GCP
5 306 (10.59%) SaaS
6 231 (7.99%) Azure DevOps
7 218 (7.54%) PaaS
8 193 (6.68%) IaaS
9 184 (6.37%) OpenShift
10 143 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
11 120 (4.15%) GitHub
12 85 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
13 83 (2.87%) Azure Service Bus
14 74 (2.56%) Amazon S3
15 69 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
15 69 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
15 69 (2.39%) Power Platform
16 68 (2.35%) Amazon ECS
17 56 (1.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 41 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.28%) Internet
2 24 (0.83%) AMQP
3 21 (0.73%) DNS
3 21 (0.73%) Firewall
4 17 (0.59%) Network Security
5 15 (0.52%) MPLS
6 13 (0.45%) HTTP
7 12 (0.42%) BGP
7 12 (0.42%) IOS XR
8 9 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 8 (0.28%) VPN
10 7 (0.24%) Bluetooth
11 3 (0.10%) ATM
11 3 (0.10%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (0.10%) LAN
11 3 (0.10%) SSL
11 3 (0.10%) VXLAN
11 3 (0.10%) WAN
11 3 (0.10%) Wireless
12 2 (0.069%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 356 (12.32%) NoSQL
2 225 (7.79%) Relational Database
3 188 (6.51%) SQL Server
4 163 (5.64%) MongoDB
5 154 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
6 131 (4.53%) MySQL
7 127 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
8 123 (4.26%) Data Lake
9 112 (3.88%) RDBMS
10 104 (3.60%) Big Data
11 95 (3.29%) Oracle Database
12 78 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
13 75 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
13 75 (2.60%) DynamoDB
14 66 (2.28%) Redis
15 64 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
16 35 (1.21%) Hadoop
17 26 (0.90%) BigQuery
18 24 (0.83%) Power BI
19 23 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 604 (20.90%) Git
2 284 (9.83%) Jenkins
3 190 (6.57%) JIRA
4 116 (4.01%) Maven
5 114 (3.94%) GitLab
6 82 (2.84%) JUnit
7 74 (2.56%) Cucumber
8 73 (2.53%) Bitbucket
9 66 (2.28%) Artifactory
10 60 (2.08%) SonarQube
11 51 (1.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 47 (1.63%) Selenium
13 40 (1.38%) Postman
14 38 (1.31%) Jasmine
15 36 (1.25%) JDeveloper
16 35 (1.21%) Mockito
17 34 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
18 32 (1.11%) Cypress.io
19 30 (1.04%) IntelliJ
20 26 (0.90%) Eclipse
General
1 862 (29.83%) Finance
2 526 (18.20%) Social Skills
3 421 (14.57%) Banking
4 243 (8.41%) Retail
5 172 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 168 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
7 161 (5.57%) Police
8 90 (3.11%) Legal
8 90 (3.11%) Public Sector
9 84 (2.91%) Marketing
10 72 (2.49%) Law
11 54 (1.87%) Financial Institution
11 54 (1.87%) Front Office
12 52 (1.80%) Games
13 38 (1.31%) Tech for Good
14 31 (1.07%) Investment Banking
15 30 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
17 25 (0.87%) Retail Banking
18 18 (0.62%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 953 (32.98%) Developer
2 657 (22.73%) Software Engineer
3 650 (22.49%) Senior
4 648 (22.42%) Architect
5 385 (13.32%) Solutions Architect
6 364 (12.60%) Java Developer
7 324 (11.21%) Lead
8 310 (10.73%) Senior Developer
9 267 (9.24%) Java Engineer
10 207 (7.16%) Java Software Engineer
11 191 (6.61%) .NET Developer
12 178 (6.16%) Senior Software Engineer
13 142 (4.91%) DevOps Engineer
14 132 (4.57%) Enterprise Architect
15 124 (4.29%) Full Stack Developer
16 122 (4.22%) C# Developer
17 107 (3.70%) Lead Developer
18 106 (3.67%) Senior Java Developer
19 103 (3.56%) Software Developer
20 87 (3.01%) Ruby Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 684 (23.67%) React
2 609 (21.07%) .NET
3 577 (19.97%) Spring
4 413 (14.29%) REST
5 409 (14.15%) Kafka
6 386 (13.36%) Spring Boot
7 354 (12.25%) Node.js
8 331 (11.45%) AngularJS
9 287 (9.93%) RESTful
10 221 (7.65%) HTML
11 210 (7.27%) CSS
12 207 (7.16%) .NET Core
13 172 (5.95%) J2EE
14 166 (5.74%) .NET Framework
15 161 (5.57%) Web Services
16 157 (5.43%) JSON
17 146 (5.05%) Ruby on Rails
18 133 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
19 107 (3.70%) OpenID
20 99 (3.43%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 226 (7.82%) Cloud Native
2 190 (6.57%) Public Cloud
3 156 (5.40%) Distributed Systems
4 149 (5.16%) Product Ownership
5 136 (4.71%) Blockchain
6 126 (4.36%) Greenfield Project
7 104 (3.60%) Mainframe
8 77 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
9 73 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
10 57 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 48 (1.66%) Derivative
11 48 (1.66%) Virtual Team
12 47 (1.63%) Mobile App
13 42 (1.45%) Distributed Applications
14 41 (1.42%) Hedge funds
15 38 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 38 (1.31%) IoT
16 36 (1.25%) Algorithms
16 36 (1.25%) Management Information System
16 36 (1.25%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 318 (11.00%) Linux
2 137 (4.74%) Unix
3 63 (2.18%) Windows
4 39 (1.35%) Android
5 35 (1.21%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.42%) Ubuntu
6 12 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.28%) CentOS
8 8 (0.28%) Debian
8 8 (0.28%) Solaris
9 6 (0.21%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,449 (50.14%) Agile
2 1,028 (35.57%) Software Engineering
3 963 (33.32%) DevOps
4 790 (27.34%) CI/CD
5 687 (23.77%) Containerisation
6 658 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
7 584 (20.21%) Design Patterns
8 533 (18.44%) Mentoring
9 457 (15.81%) Continuous Integration
10 374 (12.94%) Scrum
11 372 (12.87%) Unit Testing
12 365 (12.63%) Actionable Insight
13 341 (11.80%) Code Quality
14 323 (11.18%) Roadmaps
15 309 (10.69%) Clean Code
15 309 (10.69%) Event-Driven
16 307 (10.62%) Full Stack Development
17 305 (10.55%) TDD
18 304 (10.52%) SDLC
19 279 (9.65%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,358 (46.99%) Java
2 780 (26.99%) Python
3 704 (24.36%) C#
4 683 (23.63%) JavaScript
5 551 (19.07%) SQL
6 300 (10.38%) TypeScript
7 245 (8.48%) Ruby
8 212 (7.34%) Go
9 160 (5.54%) Bash
10 110 (3.81%) Perl
11 97 (3.36%) PowerShell
12 49 (1.70%) T-SQL
13 45 (1.56%) PHP
13 45 (1.56%) Shell Script
14 35 (1.21%) C++
15 29 (1.00%) Bicep
16 28 (0.97%) Kotlin
17 27 (0.93%) Rust
18 21 (0.73%) Groovy
18 21 (0.73%) Scala
Qualifications
1 455 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 307 (10.62%) SC Cleared
3 278 (9.62%) Degree
4 130 (4.50%) DV Cleared
5 129 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 75 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 54 (1.87%) Master's Degree
8 37 (1.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 33 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 32 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
10 32 (1.11%) TOGAF Certification
11 24 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 21 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (0.48%) CISSP
14 13 (0.45%) OCP
14 13 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
15 12 (0.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 11 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
17 9 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
18 7 (0.24%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (8.55%) QA
2 28 (0.97%) Accessibility
2 28 (0.97%) SEPA
3 27 (0.93%) Data Quality
4 18 (0.62%) ISO 20022
5 9 (0.31%) NCSC
6 8 (0.28%) GDPR
7 7 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.24%) SLA
8 5 (0.17%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.17%) WCAG
9 4 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.14%) GRC
9 4 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.069%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.069%) NIST
11 1 (0.035%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.035%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.035%) HL7
11 1 (0.035%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 823 (28.48%) Docker
2 36 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.28%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.21%) HDFS
6 5 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.14%) Ceph
8 3 (0.10%) IAG
8 3 (0.10%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.069%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.069%) Postfix
9 2 (0.069%) vSphere
10 1 (0.035%) KVM
10 1 (0.035%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.035%) RACF
10 1 (0.035%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.035%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 816 (28.24%) Kubernetes
2 273 (9.45%) Terraform
3 172 (5.95%) Ansible
4 52 (1.80%) Grafana
5 32 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 24 (0.83%) Puppet
7 22 (0.76%) Packer
8 20 (0.69%) Istio
9 14 (0.48%) Kustomize
10 13 (0.45%) Kibana
11 11 (0.38%) Argo
12 7 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
13 6 (0.21%) Consul
14 5 (0.17%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.17%) MIIS
15 3 (0.10%) Microsoft Intune
15 3 (0.10%) Rancher
16 2 (0.069%) Check_MK
16 2 (0.069%) Oracle Identity Management
Vendors
1 267 (9.24%) Microsoft
2 152 (5.26%) Oracle
3 103 (3.56%) Google
4 43 (1.49%) IBM
5 42 (1.45%) Atlassian
6 33 (1.14%) Splunk
7 31 (1.07%) Salesforce
8 22 (0.76%) AppDynamics
9 20 (0.69%) Dynatrace
9 20 (0.69%) VMware
10 19 (0.66%) SAP
11 17 (0.59%) Databricks
11 17 (0.59%) WSO2
12 16 (0.55%) Confluent
13 15 (0.52%) MuleSoft
13 15 (0.52%) Red Hat
14 14 (0.48%) Sparx
15 13 (0.45%) Sitecore
16 12 (0.42%) Adobe
16 12 (0.42%) ServiceNow